No Data Corruption & Data Integrity

Data corruption is the unintentional modification of a file or the losing of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and for that reason, a file can become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer work properly because its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer show a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etcetera. In the event that this kind of an issue appears and it is not identified by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive which is a part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file shall be reproduced on all of the other drives and the harm will be long term. A number of widespread file systems either do not offer real-time checks or do not have high quality ones that will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common issue on web hosting servers where substantial amounts of info are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new website hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. Most of the internet hosting suppliers, like our firm, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same info is synchronized between the drives at all times. When a file on a drive gets corrupted for whatever reason, however, it is likely that it will be copied on the other drives since alternative file systems don't have special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS uses a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the damaged copy shall be swapped with a good one from a different hard drive. As this happens right away, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not experience any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans because the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all the files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file saved on a server. Since we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. In the event that it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any chance of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the other drives. ZFS is the only file system available on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.